Monday, March 14, 2005

Simply Devastating

Think the bloggers were hard on CBS and CNN? We were pushovers next to Thomas Lipscomb, who has written an article that hits with the force of a bunker-busting bomb in Editor and Publisher (hat tip to the Instapundit). Remember how everyone said that the tape of Davos was simply unavailable? Well...

Not only was there a tape, but CNN admits it never asked for it, as CNN spokeswoman Megan Mahoney has revealed to me. There was no problem with getting a copy of the notorious �off the record� tape from the World Economic Forum. When I asked WEF�s Klaus Schwab whether he would have made a tape available, cut to just Eason Jordan�s remarks, and give [sic] it to Jordan and CNN, he replied: �Of course. And they could make any distribution of it they wished.�